A timeline to Bush government torture- June 19, 2008 "It is increasingly clear that the administration sought from early on to implement interrogation techniques whose basis was torture. Soon after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the Pentagon and the CIA began an orchestrated effort to tap expertise from the military's Survival, Evasion, Resistance, Escape school, for use in the interrogation of terrorist suspects. ...SERE training has nothing to do with effective interrogation, according to military experts. Trained interrogators don't..http://theworld.com/~emg/2008_06_15_blog_archive.html#2012908465115725361 There are more than 11 miliion refugees in the world- June 18, 2008 "U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres said numbers were rising again after several years of decline in which refugees returned to countries including Afghanistan, Sierra Leone, Liberia and Angola." (Associated Press)http://theworld.com/~emg/2008_06_15_blog_archive.html#2197740559213733460 How to Balance 17 Dominos on One- June 18, 2008 Video (5min)http://theworld.com/~emg/2008_06_15_blog_archive.html#3355005876360327013 Waiting for the Water to Fall- June 18, 2008 "New York City is now 10 days away from the unveiling of Waterfalls, the much anticipated (and hyped) $15 million public art project by the Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson. The project, the biggest public art installation since The Gates, the Christo and Jeanne-Claude work in Central Park in 2005, is already being hyped, with Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg saying the work could evoke the awe that led 16th-century European explorers to compare the New York shoreline to the Garden of Eden....http://theworld.com/~emg/2008_06_15_blog_archive.html#5276718484383851401 Looking Forward to Intelligent Civilized Discourse in the Coming Presidential Race- June 18, 2008 Think Again (Thnik Progress)http://theworld.com/~emg/2008_06_15_blog_archive.html#5925948158683332337 Wired Nostalgia- June 18, 2008 On the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary, Kevin Kelly waxes nostalgic about Wired's early years. Probably interesting only if you are a Wired fan.http://theworld.com/~emg/2008_06_15_blog_archive.html#332336317978078769 A McCain-Lieberman ticket- June 18, 2008 Walter Shapiro in Salon: "Joe-mentum slants too far right for Democrats, but it would (believe it or not) move the Republicans toward the center."Not as if he is the first to have thought of this likelihood.http://theworld.com/~emg/2008_06_15_blog_archive.html#1681676467274626402 Happy Bloomsday- June 16, 2008 Bloomsday resources from Jorn Barger. Molly Bloom's soliloquy from Penelope (Episode 18):...the sun shines for you he said the day we were lying among the rhododendrons on Howth head in the grey tweed suit and his straw hat the day I got him to propose to me yes first I gave him the bit of seedcake out of my mouth and it was leapyear like now yes 16 years ago my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all a womans body yes...http://theworld.com/~emg/2008_06_15_blog_archive.html#1253185207349432612 A Remarkable Photo From Tornado Country- June 16, 2008 One indelible image: "When the weather turned violent and stormy on Tuesday evening, Lori Mehmen, who lives in the small farming town of Orchard in northeastern Iowa, looked out her front door and saw a funnel cloud bearing down and evidently had the presence of mind to grab her digital camera and capture this shot before taking cover." (The Lede, New York Times)http://theworld.com/~emg/2008_06_15_blog_archive.html#2439036192563254787 Wake Up and Smell the Coffee- June 16, 2008 "Drinking a cup of coffee can wake you up, but perhaps just a whiff of Java is enough to reverse the effects of sleep deprivation on the brain... It seems to work for rats..." (The Neurocritic)http://theworld.com/~emg/2008_06_15_blog_archive.html#7194557304620102709 |